Sorry to follow up on my own posting but I still have not been able to
get the postgresql package to install.
Douglas Bates <bates@cs.wisc.edu> writes:
> I'm having trouble trying to install the postgresql_6.5-3 package in a
> potato system. Is there a known work-around for the following error?
I still cannot get the postgresql package to configure on a potato
system. I have purged everything I can find that has to do with
postgres, removed the /var/postgres and /usr/lib/postgresql
directories and started the installation from scratch with a
postgresql_6.5.1-1.deb package that I picked up from master.debian.org
I get an error that I have been getting weeks now when creating the
template database on a clean install. After that there is an error
cascade because the template1 database does not exist.
The transcript is:
Selecting previously deselected package postgresql.
(Reading database ... 48364 files and directories currently installed.
)
Unpacking postgresql (from postgresql_6.5.1-1.deb) ...
Setting up postgresql (6.5.1-1) ...
Updating /var/postgres/.profile ...
Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data
su postgres -c cd /var/postgres; . .profile; initdb -l /usr/lib/postgresql/lib -r /var/postgres/data -u postgres
We are initializing the database system with username postgres (uid=31).
This user will own all the files and must also own the server process.
Creating Postgres database system directory /var/postgres/data/base
Creating template database in /var/postgres/data/base/template1
syntax error 2334 : parse error
Creating global classes in /var/postgres/data/base
Adding template1 database to pg_database...
Vacuuming template1
postgres: invalid option -- O
Usage: postgres [-B nbufs] [-d lvl] ] [-f plantype] [-v protocol] [-o filename] [-P portno] [-t tracetype] [-x opttype] [-bCEiLFNopQSs] [dbname]
... (error messages repeated several times)
I would appreciate any suggestions on this. I have a lot of people
very angry at me because the main directories for our web site have
been missing for over a week. We were storing the information to
generate those directories in postgresql. I do realize there is a
certain element of risk in running the unstable release.